Timothy Noah

Republicans get four or eight years to rule; Democrats, only two. But Biden’s making excellent use of his limited time.

The late AFL-CIO president’s breathtaking Obama speech in 2008 was just one of countless times when he spoke a courageous truth.

The Amazon founder revived the theory of surplus value.

We can debate its economic harm, but its political damage to progressive governance is indisputable.

Republican-led states have reduced unemployment benefits, and workers are quitting their jobs at a nearly pre-pandemic rate.

As higher education goes broke, expensive sports teams are a luxury that colleges can’t afford.

The only sure things in life are death and taxes. Joe Biden has a plan to bring them together to benefit all Americans.

Wages and job openings are up. Here’s why they won’t stay that way.

Donald Trump’s weird obsession with mail-in voting is doing collateral damage to GOP lawmakers’ illiberal designs.

I am a fan of “Hillbilly Elegy”—even the movie!—but I can no longer admire the plutocratic fraud that its author has become.

From the Black Death to Covid-19, deadly plagues have a tendency to raise hourly earnings—for the grisliest of reasons.

Joe Biden’s plan to raise capital gains taxes isn’t just reasonable. It’s downright Reaganesque, my friend.

The former vice president told the hard truth to the American people. No Democrat has dared do so since.

The president pledged to require businesses to make workplaces safe from the coronavirus on the campaign trail. Now he may not.

Big business has no reason either to believe or worry about the GOP’s empty threats.

Biden’s plan would allocate billions to transportation and manufacturing. But will it also do what’s necessary to build back the country’s unions?

An underfunded and overworked IRS has enabled a handful of plutocratic tax cheats to live large at the expense of everyone else.

Red-state officials want to use the money to cut taxes rather than help their struggling citizens.

A little-talked-about provision in the recently passed measure shines a new light on the often bungled efforts of the past to rein in runaway inequality.

A union election is underway at the company’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama—and the president made clear where he stands.